Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1929, Page 16

OMENS ELECTION HELD SBNFIANT Slemp Tells Radio Audience i Prejudice Against Them ! Holding Office Is Passing. ©. Bascom Slemp, national Repub- Nean committeeman from Virginia and former secretary to President Coolidge, told a country-wide radio audience last night, in a broadcast sponsored by the ‘National Woman's Party, that the elec- tion of eight women to Congress from widely separated States is proof that rejudice against women in public office ’; being overcome. ~Hundreds of women occupy elective offices and thousands fill every kind ot appointive office,” Mr. Slemp said. “Nowadays the same test is applied to women candidates and applicants as is applied to men.” The speaker assured his audience that both political parties have reacted to the growing sentiment for women's participation in the Government. Of the eight women Representatives, Mr. Slemp -pointed out, five are from Re- ublican districts and the others from f)emofl'nuc districts, in such widely~ separated States as California, Florida, Tilinois, Massachusetts, New York and Kentucky. This tendency is further {llustrated, the speaker said, by the increasing number of women who fill a wide varjety of recrom!h)e positions in all departments of the Government. Mr. Slemp’s talk was one of a series on the subject broadcast by the Na- tional Woman's Party over a Nation- wide hook-up of the National Broad- Sext "-3-“' Speaker will be Miss ARG ex ’s er inie Goodri dean of 3 Yale University Nursing School, who will discuss ‘woman’s place in the nursing profes- sion. PN thousand miners at Ashington, , threatened to strike recently the use of steel props and cutters in cutting stone Around-the-World Flight Leader Wins Honor From War Department. Captain, With Lieut. John P. Richter, Is Commended in Official. Citation. By the Associated Press. Award of the Distinguished Flying Cross to Capt. Lowell H.-Smith of the THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, LOWELL H. SMITH, REFUELING PIONEER. GETS FLYING CROSS| = PURCHASING CHAIN|ouce”s s iy o 7o s Army Air Corps, leader of the arouna- the-world flight . of 1924, for his pioneer work in the refdeling of air- pianes while in. flight, has been an- nounced by the War Department. While the award of ‘the. decoration has just been ‘announced, it was re- vealed that ‘the presentation of the cross was made recently at Wright Fleld, Dayton, Ohio, by Brig. Gen. Benjamin D.: Foulois, ' chief of the material division at the fleld. Capt. Smith, together with Lieut. John P. Richter, who also has been presented with the decoration, planned and carried out extensive test flights, which made this type of flying a suc- cess, and in 1923 remained aloft m sustained flight over a 50-kilometer course at Rockwell Field, Californiu, for 37 hours and 15 minutes. Smitn now is stationed at the Curtjss: Aero- plane & Motor Corporation plant at Buffalo, N. Y., where he is serving as_Air Corps representative. The citation accompanying the award reads as follows: “Lowell H. Smith, captain, Air Corps, then first lieutenant, Air Service, United States Army. For extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight. Lieut. Smith and First Lieut. John P. Richter were the gloneem in establishing the practica- ility of refueling airplanes while CAPT. LOWELL H. SMITH. Coughs from colds may lead tious trouble. You can stop shees now with Creomulsion, an emulsified creosote that is pleasant to take. Creomulsion js a medical discovery with two-fold action; it soothes and heals the inflamed membranes and in. hibits germ growth, Of all known drugs creosote is rece ognized by high medical authorities as one of the greatest healing agencies for coughs from colds and bronchial drritations. 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